Writing Between: Hungarian Affinities in Contemporary Irish Poetry

(translated by Anna Branczeiz)

Abstract

There are some significant contemporary Irish poets, such as W. B. Yeats, Dennis O’Driscoll and Hugh Maxton/McCormack, who have been in engagement with Hungarian poets and writers, for instance, Antal Szerb, Jenő Dsida and Ágnes Nemes Nagy, as well as George Szirtes. The question of how cultural and poetic exchanges between Irish and Hungarian writers have developed throughout the twentieth century is in the heart of this essay. Its aim is to reveal some of these relations by analyzing specific works of authors mentioned here. The originally English essay was translated by Anna Branczeiz.